Nevada County picayune., 1887-07-27
CORRESPONDENCE.

Editor. or.PICAYuNE. Fl Please allow i me space in yonr paper for 1erl- ] suned by the new comcr0u', Mir. Harper, of Illinois. An "id but ] trite maxim says, "that whH n the i Gods would destroy they first i make mad.' So 1t seems the pur . pose of such agiiatOrs as Mr. liar per, and his associates are to array capital and labor against each other and thereby inangnrate a fierce and bitter warfare between them, with what result any Sensi- ble man ought to kLow. That great wrongs do exist. and always have existed to some oNiuht, lu the admlnistratioa of our govern ment must he admitted. That the human family have always been and are still violating Gods holy law is equally tfne. Because such wrongs do exist in our govern n:ent and in is administration, does it necessarily follow that the administrators are corrupt and that the government itself Is on the down grade to death hell and destruction? Then we may logic ally say that because oI the disc. bedence of some of Gods crodt. ures to His holy laws, that the whole human family are corrupt and getting worse and worse from generation to generali1n, and all are rushing down to all amending hell. Capital and labor should be coworkers together. Labor can't get along without capital to aid 1t and capital will not Knowingly en- gage in all uncertain and unsafe business. In times of great troub- lc and political disturbances, 1t will hide itselfaway in safe place, or come fourth in an inspected hour to double itself in the short
 est possible time while labor must toil ou and from day to day in order to gain a daily living.
 Hence from this we see that labor is more dependent upon cap
 ital, than capital is upon labor. Therefore, it makes it the more important for labor to be on good terms with capital, than for capital to be on good terms with labor; yet, logically speaking, labor could not be on good terms with capital without capital being on good terms with labor. By this illustration we want to show to the laborer that it is important for him to keep on good terms with capital, for on that he must depend for his daily support. A war between capital and labor will simply result in run ing labor and in giving capital a new hold upon the laborlng peo- pie of the country The cause of the laboriug man must be entrnst- ed to and managed by it's own friends, and not by political hacks, Instead of inaugurating war be- tween capital and labor, let us try to bring them into more equlta- ble and harmonious relation with each other. A party that Is or. ganized avowedly against the poli- cy and administration of the gov ernment, and against capital and its kindred alliances, Is just about as likely to succeed in its under taking as single individual would be in attempting to go in a birch bark canoe to the North pole. on fishing expedition. We want all the wrongs that eXistin the gov crnmcnt lighted. We want equal and exact justice to all, and special favors or priviledges to none. But now what plan or policy shall we adopt in orderto accomplish our purpose? Will we succeed best by antagonizing the policy of gov ernment by arraying ourselves agauist capital and all its alliances and by abusing seven tenths of the population of the nation? That the labor question, the railroad question aud the money question are great and ponderous questions there can be no doubt. That the financial pressure of to day is more oppressive upon the farmers of the country than any other class of labors cannot be denied. In fact right here is where the farmers trouble commences. Skilled and mechanical labor is helping to squeze the life blood out of the farmers, yet such men as Mr' Har- per will try to make the farmers believe that they are being robbed by the government by capital and corporations etc. Wrongs may and do exist in all these depart ments, but skilled and mechanical labor is better paid to day in the
 United States than any other cOun- try in the world. They are reap, ing rich reward at the expense of the farmer. They are getting
 wages almost equal to what they
 got in lS65-6 or lS61-while they can buv farm products for about thirty three percent of what they then paid-the old story-the big fish eating up the small ones. We will take Mir. Harper's own illus trationS of the fifteen bushels of
 Nhnat tn hrn%p thn sn~rpptupss pf